Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-15
this accomplishes great results, and
does it with no apparent attendant
eyils.-JourndI of Education.
PUBLIC OPINION.


The worst education that teaches self
denial is better than the best that
teaches everything else and not that
John Stirling.
IL yexed with child when instruct.
ing it, try to write with your left hand,
remembering a child is all left hand
j. H. Boges
Teaching is sacred. and no one is fit
| to engage in the work unless he is
willing To use all means for right and
| powerful iniluencc--dGBseS IT, Barker.
Give work practical turn. Cause
| children to feel that what they are do
ing will be useful to them, and that it
is worth their willis to be attentive. -
The Supplement.
Emmy man who has kept school for
ten years ought to be made a major
general and have n penshun for the
rest of his days, and boss and
wagon to do his going round in.--Josh
Bili1sgs.
Herbert Spencer, in his treatise on
education, says: TO prepare US
for complete living is the function
which education has to discharge,
and the only rational mode Of
Judging of an educational course is
to judge in what degree it discharges
such function"
mo man is the wiser for his books
until he is above them How ADORE
them? Not until his mind has actually
acquired their contents, mis- spirit aud
judgment restrained, enthuSed. and
enlightened by their rules, principles,
preccpts, etc.-Prof L. Il. Austia,
ZQneSritlc, D.
Let it be our hope to make a gentle
man of every youth who is put under
our charge, -not conventional gen-
| tleman, bat 4 man of culture, man of
refinement, with that good taste which
is the conscience Of the mind, and that
conscience which is the good taste Of
the soul.-Janaes Russell LoreH.
We believe in pictures. They appeal
to the eye promptly, conveying infor-
nation in a complete aud compreben-
sive form. To see picture is the next
thing to Witnessing an event with ones
own eyes. Children take to pictures;
they will look at the same picture over
and over again, and never grow weary
of having it shown and the story told
which it represents. DR.. Vincent.
heard teacher remark once that
she would rather have her children
happy, and have their love, if her
schoolroom wasn't so very orderly
Very good, indeed; | like that. But it
seems to me that, if she did but know
it, she was just the teacher who could,
by few gentle, smiling words, and a
little painstaking, give those children
a schoolroom into which they would
be proud TO have their friends come
Salem Gazette.
In the work of the schoolroom.
while ever carefully seeking for better
ways, we have striven 10 make the q00d
contagious, and raise all TO the ieUci at
the best; to bring the peculiar excel
ences of individual teachers to the
notice of others, and thus, by mutual
example and assistance, free from
rivalries and jealousies, become Sharcrs
in whatever has been found most
useful in matters OF instruction
and discipline. Especially have we
sought to induce that hearty SYM
pathy between teacher and pupil which
should render the school efficient in
developing. in the pupils upright,
strong, and worthy characters. -Sapt.
George Howland, Chicago.
To be an educated man in the high
set sense, is to be complete man,
strong, active, intelligent, wise, good,
useful, and happy. Gen. r. J. Morgan.
The teacher is the life Of the school.
If oxygen representing scarcely more
than one-llfth part of the atmosphere
is essential to the support Of physical
life, so is the teacher, though he be bat
one factor in the complex educational
system, the vital one. Without him
the school dies Pres. j. u. EIp,
Kansas.
assume that the schonls are csttb-
lishcd for ieallhv and not for s:rklyI
pupils, and ouId hc Judged According
w. | 10 noi 5elieve That the amount
Of mental application uow imposed is
creator ilaa \ ba .uand to have leen
required from aaloo children ut any
time IN tie wi:o;c history OF education,
since school. we're FIRST cstabi;shed.-
Dr.. j. I. Iaaa, Supervisor Of Hygienjc
IN